Sadly, not something new...

Grading research papers is always a daunting task for me. I want to make sure that I am assessing them fairly and give them appropriate feedback, but I also want to finish grading them in a timely fashion as well. It becomes completely demoralizing when I find plagiarized papers. Everything that I have done in teaching the research paper process, and yet, two of the papers are plagiarized. I wish I didn't take it so personally, but yet, I do. I am offended and defeated at the same time. WHY do they cheat? Why do they think they can get away with it? Why didn't they learn how to cite their sources? Why didn't they learn the process? Why, why, why?